Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	circle_n	climate_n	zone_n	18	3	15.4998	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51768	The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix / by Edward Sherburne, Esquire.; Astronomicon. Liber 1. English	Manilius, Marcus.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1675 (1675)	Wing M432; ESTC R8811	496,818	336

Head shaven on one side and long Hair on the other By the first intimating the time of the Winter Solstice cum velut abrasis Incrementis angustâ manente Exstantiâ ad Minimum Diei Sol pervenerit Spatium By the later the Summer Solstice or his full grown Splendour to which he arrives by Degrees emerging from those straits of Light in his abode in this Winter Tropick or to express it in Macrobius his own Words Ex quibus latebris vel Angustiis rursus emergens ad aestivum Hemisphaerium enascens in Augmenta porrigitur niggard Light By a short Course but long o're Those He stays Whose Lands are warm'd by his directer Rays The z Of this We have given the reason and explication in the Note upon the Tropick of Cancer and shall here only add that the Antient Aegyptians when they would express the Course of the Sun in his Solstice signified the same by the Hieroglyphick of two feet fasined together as represented by Pierius l. 5. c. 41. and Casalius de Veter Aegypt rit c. 20. Intimating thereby the slowness of his Motion or rather Stationary Condition to which I know not whether our Authour in this place may allude when he says Vixque dies transit As if the feet of the Day were fetter'd slow-pac'd Day there hardly passing round This from th' Aequator four Degrees is found One Circle more yet rests whose a The Antartick Polas Circle Site inclines Tow'rd the South Pole and Southern Bears confines Rang'd from the Winter Tropick five Degrees And near its Pole as the North's far from his Thus Heaven in two divided Pole from Pole Does by that double Summ measure the Whole f The Antartick or Southern Polar Circle which is describ'd a smaller Circle Parallel to the Aequator passing about the Axis of the World by the Southern Pole of the Ecliptick comprehending the frigid Southern Zone and terminating the temperate and is call'd the Antartick Polar Circle in opposition to the Artick before describ'd to which it is equal And by b The four Parallel lesser Circles before described that is to say the two Tropicks and two Polar Circles mark out the Heavens into five Zones which by the Latines are called Fasciae Cinguli Plagae and by Cicero Maculae and Orae That included between the two Tropicks is called the Torrid Zone which Polybius divided into two parted by the Aequator but he is not followed therein by any The two included between the Tropicks and the Polar Circles are called the temperate the other two included within the Polar Circles are call'd the Frigid Zones Of these Thales is said to have been the Inventor though Posidonius cited by Strabo without ground ascribes it to Parmenides five Bounds distinguish'd into c The Distinction of the Zones not sufficing the Antients to mark out the various Position and Situation of several Regions on either side of the Aequator They added divers other Parallel Circles which they called Climates A Climate being a little Zone included between two Circles parallel to the Aequator or between the Aequator and one Circle parallel thereunto mutually distant from one another by the Arch of a Meridian answerable to an half hours difference by which the longest day of the Year under one Parallel varies from the longest Day of the Year under another They are call'd Climata quasi Inclinamenta as it were deflexious from a right Position of Sphere or so many st●…ps and degrees mounting from the Aequator towards the Poles The Antients reckon'd only seven which they distinguish'd by the Names of the Places over o●… through which they passed Viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. i. e. Per Meroen●…per Syenen●…per Alexandriam per Rhodum per Romam per Pontum per Boristhenem But Modern Astronomers and Geographers reckon 48. that is to say from the Aequator on each side to either of the Polar Circles 24. At which the Climates end the longest day there exceeding the ordinary Horary Measure unless by a kind of Analogy We reckon Moneths and half Moneths for hours and half hours Those Climates are again by the Moderns subdivided by drawing in the Middle of each Climate another Parallel Line dividing the same into two smaller Zones which by a Peculiar name are term'd Parallels Of which the more remote from the Aequator hath the longest Day of the Year differing from that nearer to it by the space of ¼ of an hour These are in number double to the Climates Vide Weigel Method Sphaeric l. 1. Sect. 1. Cap. 3. Climes Marks out the Difference of Place and Times Which Parallels One Course with Heaven partake And equal Rise with that and Setting make Since in th' Aethereal Texture they observe Their stated Distance and thence never swerve Passing a-cross by either Pole d These are the Coluri which are two great Circles cutting each other at right Angles in the Poles of the World Whereof one passes by the Aequinoctial the other by the Solstitial Points of the Zodiack They are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Mutili because in our oblique Position of Sphere they never entirely appear above the Horizon either at once or by Successive Conversion two more There are which intersect all Those before And themselves too concurring in th' Extreams Of the Worlds Axis at right-angled Scheams Which mark the Seasons out and Heaven beside Into four Quarters equally divide Of these through highest Heaven its Course e The Colurus Aequinoctiorum is describ'd a great Circle of the Sphere passing by the Poles of the World and cutting the Aequator at right Angles in the two Equinoctial Points or first Degrees of Aries and Libra whose Poles are in the first Points of Cancer and Capricorn or otherwise whose Poles are 90 Degrees distant from the first Points of Aries and Libra one steers Colurus Aequinoctiorum Parting the Serpents Tayl and undrench'd Bears And Tips of Scorpio's Claws born through Mid-skies Of Hydra cutting the Extremities And Middle of the Southern Centaur then Concurring in the Adverse Pole agen Returns by the huge Whale whose Scaly Chine Bright Trigon and the Bounds the Ram confine It marks then by Cepheïs Waste doth run Her Mothers Head and ends where it begun By th' midst of this the Worlds Extremitie And the Fore-feet and Neck of Helice Colurus Solstitiocum Which first of all when Sol withdraws his Light With seven fair Stars illuminates the Night The f The Colurus 〈◊〉 is a great Circle passing by the Poles of the World and Poles of the Zodiack cutting both the Aequator and Ecliptick at right Angles in the So●…al Points or first Degrees of Cancer and Capricorn and hath its proper Poles in the first Degrees of Aries and Libra To these two Circles are to be applyed this Vulgar Dis●…ch Haec duo Solstitium faciunt Cancer Capricornus Sed N●…ies ae●…uant Aries Libra Diebus